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Word: puts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...appealed to the Soviet representatives. The job has come to an American concern. "However, it did not come overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling but incurably old-fashioned Nishni Novgorod flashed details of how the proposition was finally put through by Austin's eager, resourceful Executive Vice President George C. Bryant Jr., sire of three daughters and a son who returned to their Cleveland school last week after summering near Pontiac, Mich. Summering in Russia, Mr. Bryant has been in consultation with Soviet engineers who calculated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Austin's Austingrad | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...week ephemeral charges were made by Arab and Jewish organizations in Palestine and throughout the world, each race trying to put major blame on the other. But the colonial office ignored all such manifestations, prepared to finish the mopping up as a matter of police methods and British justice. Said Baron Pasfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Vengeance Into Murder | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...cashier did not hesitate, for only the day before the Chase bank had received from six other Manhattan banks instructions to hold for the Bank of Telluride credits amounting to $500,000. The six Manhattan banks, in turn, had received wires from their six Denver correspondents asking them to put the $500,000 to the Bank of Telluride's credit. So, since the Bank of Telluride was Chase's correspondent, and the man with the drafts was readily identified as Telluride's President Waggoner, his drafts to the extent of $495,000 were quickly honored. Thus the man from Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waggoner's Gesture | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...have no straight surface lines or level planes as in the Los Angeles, "best product of the Zeppelin works" (Dr. Eckener). Building of a new Friedrichshafen hangar will be completed about Nov. , when construction of a huge, fattish dirigible will be begun. Imperfect, the Graf Zeppelin will never be put on a commercial line. It will be used as a training ship for dirigible crews, for excursions and sight-seeing trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelining | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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